Holiday Gifts & Cards. Need some ideas.

Just curious what you guys will spend (read invest) in your clients for holiday cards/gifts.

Last year I did Chocolate cordials in small gift bags with a holiday card. Cost was roughly $7.50/ea plus my hand delivery to about 36 people. In years past I did Poinsettia's+cards

With this years growth it doesn't seem appropriate to give a $7.50 gift to someone who spent $17K with me this year. This year I will be stepping up big time. I exported my clients to excel and sorted them by income they gave to me. I broke them into 3 categories $250-799, $800-1999, $2,000+.

I have 2 dozen that fall into the second tier which I have a budget of $20/ea for. I haven't picked anything for them yet. Finally I have a budget of $6.67 for the final and lowest tier of customers. They will receive the cordials +cards again.

I'm looking for ideas for the second tier of customers. I would like them to be something they will not eat and toss the wrapper, but rather it will sit around the house on the counter and hold magazines, or the TV-remotes or something like that. I really like the mugs that ETWman has made for his clients. Something to reinforce my presence in their homes.

BSD, sounds like a good idea, I like the idea of the wine holder with your logo on it. Even the mugs are a good idea to keep your name in their mind. I'm a little embarrassed to say, but I've never done much of anything for my clients for the holidays. Typically, December is such a mad rush to finish, we are going full steam into Christmas, so I'm only focused on that. We are a bit ahead of schedule this year, so I've had more time to think. I am doing a personalized thank you/holiday letter to all my clients, and including a color brochure I had made up this year, emphasizing the landscape install aspects of my company. So I guess a combination happy holiday/sales pitch mailing
Please keep us posted on how this goes for you, I would definitely be interested in hearing the response from people.

The definition of insanity is to continue doing things the same way and expecting a different result.

personally I would keep the sales end out of it. Make this mailing/delivers solely about customer appreciation. It will go farther. Send that to them in January or February to get their mouths wet before the start again in March.

or enclose a bizz size card with 3 card options for them.
1 olive garden or anything you think of
2 chili's or anything you think of
3 applebees or anything you think of
let them circle the one they would like to have and have them send it back to you to send them there card of choice